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September 16, 2026

Classical Education Must Teach Us to Make the Fries

To Discuss and Do: Make Fries Discussing tasty fries and the longing to eat them...

April 2022

April 30, 2022

Gandalf, Magic, and Miracles

"You shall not pass." So says a college professor at this time of the term....

July 2021

July 05, 2021

The Man of All Talents: the Extraordinary Life of Douglas Clark

As legends go, he was the genuine article. Douglas Clark was a champion wrestler and...

July 03, 2021

Getting a Blank Book

The most mysterious book I own is a blank book from my birthday. This remarkable...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

The Decadent: Rejoicing in the Nothing They Have Done (The Tempest)

Do we live in a decadent age? There are bad cultural moments that are not...

June 05, 2021

A Daughter’s Wisdom: Rejecting Elsie Dinsmore, Loving Jesus

To be a parent is to let go: to teach another human being to think,...

May 2021

May 30, 2021

Likely Wrong: Biblical Egalitarianism Regarding Some Religious Roles is Implausible

Sometimes the angels are not in the details, but the general structure. Advocacy scholarship can...

May 25, 2021

The End of the Age: Reflecting on a Mother’s Wisdom

Do we live in the end of an age? Yesterday, Mom, wise woman, said: "There...

May 13, 2021

Black Americans Were the Critical Factor in Winning the Civil War

Black Americans liberated themselves. The moment that there was a possibility of freedom, enslaved Americans...

May 08, 2021

The Everlasting Self (Or Walking Nessie in Rain and Thinking about It)

The Everlasting Self Comes in from a downpour Shaking water in every direction- A collaborative...

May 04, 2021

Trying to Understand the Curlytops as They Go Touring Around and Wondering if They Matter as Much as Gatsby

Could the Curlytops reveal as much to us about the 1920's as Gatsby? Probably not,...

April 2021

April 17, 2021

We NEED you Larry Dexter! (On the News)

We need the journalism of Larry Dexter as described by Howard R. Garis. Howard R....

April 01, 2021

Lord Byron Got One Big Thing Right (Greek Bicentennial)

Lord Byron is a poet vaguely known, little read. He can teach all of us...

March 2021

March 15, 2021

On Ideas without Mind: Could Be, but Probably Not?

A cosmos of physical objects alone would lack justice. Ideas, say justice, seem a different...

March 12, 2021

Underdetermined

I never have a pass on making a bad argument. No scholar should claim more...

March 10, 2021

The Limits of Unaided Reason

Human reason, yes, but give us also the revelation of reason that comes from God....

February 2021

February 28, 2021

Freedom Now: Democracy

Democracy Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I...

February 27, 2021

Tambourines of Childhood

The fashionable sort are figuring out what the folks did wrong back in the day....

February 25, 2021

Wonder of Houston Lights

Wonder Early blue evening. Lights ain’t come on yet. Looky yonder! They come on now!*...

February 24, 2021

Decent People: Mistakes Were Made

"Mistakes were made." That is the passive voiced apology that is no apology. People make...

February 23, 2021

A Dream Deferred

A dream can be deferred, but not forever. You can go a good bit longer,...

February 22, 2021

Lying about Goodness

Be good! Hard to argue with this command, it being good to be good and...

February 21, 2021

On Language: Ignoring Context and History Leads to Grotesqueries

Consider the power of language to liberate or brutalize. We can all learn from one...

February 20, 2021

The Two Way Evil of Hate

Hatred is two-way bad. The worst of hatred is the damage done to the hated,...

February 19, 2021

Turning the Corner or On the Houston Great Freeze (Langston Hughes)

Final Curve When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know...

February 18, 2021

Just a Drip of Water

The pipes groaned. We watched and there was a drip of water at the end...

February 17, 2021

Still Here!

Still Here I’ve been scarred and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has...

February 16, 2021

The Rent

Little Lyric (Of Great Importance) I wish the rent Was heaven sent.* When a great...

February 15, 2021

Cold, Blue, Cold Monday

Blue Monday No use in my going Downtown to work today, It’s eight, I’m late—And...

February 13, 2021

Recollecting and Helping

I was once on my way to an important meeting, when one of children asked...